Michel Houellebecq
invited Rosemarie Trockel & Théa Djordjadze

photo: Blaise Adilon		photo: Blaise Adilon

« Le monde n'est pas un panorama », 2007
Sculptures de Rosemarie Trockel et Thea Djordjaze :
«The Crack-up», 2007
«On the Wound of Mike», 2007
Courtesy Rosemarie Trockel & Thea Djordjadze
Affiche de Rem Koolhaas

Auteur des maquettes utilisées pour la conception des vitrines : Etienne Rozsaffy
Remerciements au Musée des Confluences, Lyon

MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ
born in 1958 La Réunion lives and works in Ireland and France
Michel Houellebecq is probably one of the major figures in French literature of the last fifteen years. Like its predecessors – “Whatever, Atomised” and “Platform” – his most recent novel, “The Possibility of an Island”, is part of a reflexive, neorealist approach to the issues and excesses of our time.
In this new novel Houellebecq once again pinpoints the symptoms of an existential/ideological crisis. In foundation narratives riddled with prophesies and imprecations, he offers a disenchanted vision of one possible end to the world. For the Lyon Biennial he has produced an exhibition version of part of the set for the film currently in the making. Created with help from architect Rem Koolhaas and artist Rosemarie Trockel, the set echoes the theatricality of ethnography museums and the literary and philosophical underpinnings of the Houellebecq oeuvre.

ROSEMARIE TROCKEL
née en 1952, elle vit et travaille à Cologne.

THEA DJORDJADZE
née en 1971 à Tbilisi, Géorgie.

Leurs coopérations sont nombreuses : Modus (avec Gerda Scheepers), Kunsthalle St. Gallen, 2006; IWill , Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf; Play !, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, 2005; L’Ananas Bianco (avec Bettina Pousttchi), Palazo Zenobio, Venise; Utopia Station — Postersection (avec Bettina Pousttchi), Arsenale, Venise, 2003.